I nipped into the supermarket as I was driving home from a lovely afternoon with my writing buddies. I grabbed a trolley. Great! It wasn’t chained to the others. I dashed into the store. My energetic entrance dwindled to an…

Do you have control over your mind? Or does your mind control you?? You’ll have to use your imagination as you read this week’s blog. (I know, a big ask of a novelist!) First, stand on the floor and walk…

Have you ever ducked out of making a choice and then been unhappy or resentful about the decision others took for you? “Oh … I don’t know, you choose” (indecision), or “No, really, it’s fine, you choose” (being nice and…

It’s meant to be healthy, to reduce stress, and increase productivity and happiness. Great! But how do we DO this ‘Living in the Now’?? How do we Be Present? It’s hard enough for ordinary people who only have one Now…

When one chapter in our life ends, we need to move on to the next one. We do it when we’re writing – we’d never finish our book if we didn’t! But it’s not always easy in real life. Unfinished…

Theo is 1000% focussed on his ball as it whizzes through the air, and performs amazing acrobatics to catch it before bringing it back for another throw. But I know that after the first few catches, he’ll get distracted and…

If we don’t ever allow ourselves to deeply experience sorrow or grief – “Who wants to do that?” I hear you mutter – we’re like a musical instrument without the lower notes. Our expressive range is diminished; unrealistic; inadequate. When…

When they first came in, I used to get irritated by speed bumps. They were cropping up like a rash on the surface of the road network and I could feel my body react as viscerally as if they were…

I was so happy when I finished writing my first novel. Know the feeling?? Before starting it, I had been very thorough in my learning process. I’d read a whole lot of books on creative writing (back in the pre-internet…